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Please note: This blog has gone portable as I abandon the still thawing Canada for a whirlwind four month journey around Europe.

I plan to post at least once a week to document my adventures as a solo female vegan art-loving traveller. Check out the map for geographical details of the trip in progress. Both the blog and the photos on Flickr will be updated as often as possible.

Posted
21 February 2008 @ 8pm

Tagged
artists, painting, photography, shoppings

Wendy Heldmann and Dionisio Gonzalez

Have been in over my head lately - my mom visited from the east coast and I spent a busy five days keeping her busy. In other news: despite the fact that I should be saving for Europe, I fell in love and purchased another art print from 20×200.com. I have long loved the work of Wendy Heldmann since I wrote an in-depth essay comparing her 2007 works on paper series to the paintings of Echo Eggebrecht. The work I impulsively rushed to purchase is called Darkness Moves:

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She paints with acrylic yet treats it with such subtlety it sometimes resembles watercolour. I find that unlike mosts artists the names she gives her paintings are important. A few others from the works on paper series:

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If we met would you know me

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Coulda Woulda Shoulda

When I recently came across the photographs of Dionisio Gonzalez through i heart photograph, they felt eerily familiar …

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Marginal IV

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Heliopolis II


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